<!-- These are the extra configuration parameters for a specific JPA implementation -->
<properties>
<!-- This property is telling Hibernate (the JPA implementation built into Wildfly and JBoss; google 'hibernate jpa' and 'java jpa' for more info) to automatically create all the proper tables for the @Entity classes in this project and those @Entity classes specified in class directives inside the database or to update the existing database schema to accommodate changes to the classes -->